{"id":75074,"date":"2026-06-19T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/bill-pulte-assumes-role-of-us-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:59:15","slug":"bill-pulte-assumes-role-of-us-acting-director-of-national-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/bill-pulte-assumes-role-of-us-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Federal Housing Finance Agency who investigated Trump\u2019s enemies takes over top intelligence role<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/19\/bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence-timeline\">Timeline of Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment as acting director of national intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, became the acting director of national intelligence (DNI) on Friday, following a tug-of-war between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Washington lawmakers over the short-term future of the cabinet intelligence post.<\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard, the outgoing DNI, initially planned to leave her post on 30 June, but Trump shortened her tenure to Friday. Senators planned to confirm Jay Clayton, the president\u2019s DNI nominee, by Friday, which would have denied Pulte an opportunity to serve as acting director. But Trump abruptly<strong> <\/strong>called off on Wednesday a Senate confirmation hearing for Clayton and directed him not to appear in front of Senate lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/19\/bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Federal Housing Finance Agency who investigated Trump\u2019s enemies takes over top intelligence role Timeline of Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment as acting director of national intelligence Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, became the acting director of national intelligence (DNI) on Friday, following a tug-of-war between Donald Trump and Washington lawmakers over the &#8230; <a title=\"Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/bill-pulte-assumes-role-of-us-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}